Mike Ragogna
Posted February 20, 2009 | 07:23 AM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-ragog.
This is a fairly lengthy review, so I've only posted the first paragraph. Read the rest at HuffPo.
And yes, there are lots of spoilers.
Watchmen: Who's Watching The Watchmen?
From the moment we see The Comedian's blood streak across his seventies Happy Face button, we know that the movie version of Watchmen and its caretakers were going to be as respectful as possible to the vision of the original comic miniseries. Based on one of the most collected and memorable comic book runs in history, the movie Watchmen tries to be all things cosmic and ambiguously moral to all of us unactualized and imperfect people, and it succeeds on most fronts. But unlike the thought-provoking Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins 1986 creation that demanded one's imagination stretch beyond a page of panels, this thoroughly-engaging incarnation of Warner's DC Comics property attempts to achieve that level of examination through a more stylized, literal approach.
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